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029 [son et lumière

Feb 05, 2010 23:38

[The screen, grainy black, white and sepia, shows a tiny garret room. Bare floorboards, a music stand, a bed and, on the floor, one Robert Chase tending to a broken violin.]

Of course, choose now to wear through. Now. I haven't the money for bread, and I'm wasting centimes on strings. [He releases the snapped catgut cord from the violin's ( Read more... )

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audio; treadingdawn February 6 2010, 00:33:35 UTC

You're going to hurt its feelings.

audio; firedgold February 6 2010, 00:49:05 UTC

It's used to me.

audio; treadingdawn February 6 2010, 01:00:10 UTC

Then you don't really mean to rid yourself of it?

audio; firedgold February 6 2010, 01:05:25 UTC

Its a Guarneri, worth more than the roof over my head. I'd sooner sell that.

audio; treadingdawn February 6 2010, 01:12:00 UTC

Oh good, because I have heard you play before and I have to say it would be a shame to see you give up your passion.

son ][ firedgold February 6 2010, 01:30:55 UTC

If I was a smarter man I would have given up passion for paying the bills a long time ago. I'm not smart.

son ][ treadingdawn February 6 2010, 01:48:11 UTC

Well then I am glad you are not, sir. Do you compose as well as you play?

son ][ firedgold February 6 2010, 01:56:34 UTC

I compose better, I can include full orchestras in my arrangements.

son ][ treadingdawn February 6 2010, 02:01:05 UTC

You are skilled. What is your name?

son ][ firedgold February 6 2010, 02:04:36 UTC

If you're going to compliment me without hearing anything I can give you a list of talents.

Robert Chase. Your own?

son ][ treadingdawn February 6 2010, 02:08:55 UTC

I am Caspian.

Do you think I should doubt your word, Robert Chase?

son ][ firedgold February 6 2010, 02:21:36 UTC

I don't think I have a reason to lie.

son ][ treadingdawn February 6 2010, 02:29:05 UTC

Then by all means give me an honest list of talents.

son ][ firedgold February 6 2010, 02:58:21 UTC

I can write music for the orchestra and play it on violin, violetta and piano. Can't pull words from the air as easily but I can adapt them into the operatic languages, when the occasion calls. I'd give you the rest of the list, but I hear a mystery is more appealing than a braggart.

son ][ treadingdawn February 6 2010, 03:07:54 UTC

Perhaps you struggle because you sell your mystery too short. I pluck strings from guitar to theorbo to harp and on occasion I play the flute. I can pen note to paper but I am lacking creative material to pen.

son ][ firedgold February 6 2010, 03:14:52 UTC

Then you have got an ear for what I play. [Interest, as though the compliment before had been meaningless until this discovery.]

...You have a deep voice for a player of the harp and the flute.

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